Punks, poets & provocateurs
Subtitle: New York City bad boys, 1977-1982
By: photographs by Marcia Resnick ; written by Victor Bockris ; afterword by Anthony Haden-Guest
Contributors: Bockris, Victor, 1949- author; Haden-Guest, Anthony
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781608876013
Subjects: Social life and customs; Punk culture; Rock musicians; Portrait photography; Celebrities; Subculture; Pictorial works
Description: The people from the extraordinary New York milieu amongst whom I was living and working had no way of knowing that the years between 1977 and 1982 were enchanted, endangered, and unrepeatable, explains photographer Marcia Resnick. It was a time and place populated by icons, iconoclasts, and antiheroes whom Resnick documented with a unique and evocative eye. Here, her photographs of the enfants terribles reflect this unique time in the worlds of jazz, rock and roll, literature, art, and film -- an era that remains highly influential. Rockers Johnny Thunders, Joey Ramone, James Brown, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Mick Jagger; beat poets William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso; and provocateurs and raconteurs John Waters, Steve Rubell, Gary Indiana, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the incomparable John Belushi are included here, along with text by Victor Bockris and contemporary writings that create a context for Resnick's photography from this inimitable era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-271).
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Marcia Resnick; title: The beats go on; title: Punk rockers and music rebels; title: A bad boy named John : Johnny Thunders; title: Provocateurs and raconteurs; title: Another bad boy named John : John Belushi; title: Bad girl : ordeal in Egypt; title: Afterword / by Anthony Haden-Guest.